Timing is everything

Comment

Publishing Date: 24 Apr 2009 9:32am GMT
Issue/Supplement: 24/04/09
Author: Phil Halliday

The threat and use of industrial action are no strangers to the mining industry. Workers are usually galvanised over working conditions, safety, wages and job security. In South Africa this week the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) asked for a 15% wage increase from gold and coal producers, and said negotiations on their pay would begin in the second week of May.

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